Comments on: MAAC adds two new membershttp://blog.timesunion.com/collegesports/maac-adds-two-new-members/14690/
Siena and UAlbany basketball coverageTue, 03 Mar 2015 20:46:17 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3By: basketballfanhttp://blog.timesunion.com/collegesports/maac-adds-two-new-members/14690/comment-page-1/#comment-76535
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:49:18 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/collegesports/?p=14690#comment-76535I don’t blame MTS for initially scorning at the Canisius thought. A lot of Siena fans have the 5-25 season in their heads.
However, Canisius is a program on the up with a good new head coach,some good recruits, and some great transfers.
Siena is heading the other way with terrible coach,terrible recruits,and no transfers good or bad.
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Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:35:20 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/collegesports/?p=14690#comment-76513MTS says:

December 19, 2012 at 4:29 pm

Haha.. Canisius..that writer must be on something good.

MTS – open your eyes and start to realize what others have seen for awhile!!!!

Canisius RPI 44 SOS 149
Siena RPI 311 SOS 283

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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:45:19 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/collegesports/?p=14690#comment-76452The logic of a running game makes sense. Niagara is a good example.
However, Niagara is way up there in NOT allowing turnovers per game.
The Mason-Green combo is one of the best in the MAAC.

Unfortunately, I think the Brookens-Hymes combo is one of the worst tandems in the MAAC so playing this type of game is questionable as to whether the team will improve.

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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:29:43 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/collegesports/?p=14690#comment-76448Haha.. Canisius..that writer must be on something good.
]]>By: sienafanallyearlonghttp://blog.timesunion.com/collegesports/maac-adds-two-new-members/14690/comment-page-1/#comment-76375
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:10:28 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/collegesports/?p=14690#comment-76375We have hit rock bottom when Canisius is mentioned in this article below as being a possible future member of this league witout any mention of a mid major school by the name of Siena College. A school who in the MAAC averages over 5,000 fans; even after 3 straight losing seasons. How sad is that? Don’t miss out on your chance Siena. Regardless on the amount of students you have, with your history of success and avg attendance in a building that could hold thousands more that you would attract if you were playing in the right conference like this one would be for you,please reach out to them. This would be a perfect fit for you and for us as a region. Don’t blow it and stay committed to the MAAC while one of the following schools like Iona, Niagara, and/or Manhattan is given an invitation and bolts with their 2,000 fans a game and ends up in this conference over you. Please reach out and at the very least tell us you were turned down instead of finding later on that they would have accepted you if you had only reached out.

Here’s the primary part of the article:

It’s not a coincidence that the seven schools that announced Saturday they’re separating from the Big East are all Catholic. They’re each part of a tradition that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — church institutions that sprang up to serve urban immigrant communities. Neither their demographics nor tightly-packed city campuses lent themselves to football players and stadiums (Notre Dame, with space to grow in Indiana, proved the exception to the pattern).

Basketball was a better fit for city schools, and each has done well with it.

The problem today is that college athletics revolves around big-time football dollars. That’s left behind the niche these Catholic schools inhabit — basketball powers where football is either second-fiddle (Georgetown, Villanova) or not played at all (the others). So they’re setting off on their own.

“If it ends up as all Catholic schools, that’s the way we’re going to talk about them,” said Linda Bruno, a former associate commissioner of the Big East and former commissioner of the Atlantic 10 conference, who now leads the Division III Skyline conference. But while it will be up to the school presidents to decide whether to market the conference that way, she’s not sure that’s the best course.

“Why box yourself in?” she said. “They’re so much more than a Catholic basketball league. They’re going to be a national basketball league.”

So far, that seems to be the marketing plan.

“The criteria that we’ll set forth will be non-denominational,” Villanova athletic director Vince Nicastro said Sunday, adding the group will be looking for schools that are committed to top-tier competition, are “attractive media entities,” and “care about the holistic development of their student athletes.”

“When you start to populate that matrix, you’ll probably see some Catholic schools in there and see some schools that aren’t Catholic,” he said.

And while Butler’s two recent runs to the national title game make it especially appealing, there’s no shortage of Catholic colleges with creditable basketball programs that might aspire to such company, and where the played-up Catholic identity would be part of the appeal. Gonzaga and St. Mary’s on the West Coast may prove too far away, but Creighton, Dayton, Xavier, Canisius and St. Bonaventure could all be potential candidates (as might Saint Joseph’s and LaSalle in Philadelphia, but for the fact nearby Villanova would be unlikely to accept expansion in its own market).

Mitches comment says it all. “Starting today”; after 11 games he is deciding to make a conceirted effort to run. Give me a break. “When we get a chance to run we are supposed o run”. Give me another break. You create your chances with every time and every rebound and every quick outlet pass you get. With the beauty of having two small fast point guards in the game you should have choices on either side of the court to be able to get quick outlet passes out “each and every time” in order to put “pace of play pressure” on the defense every single time we get a defensive rebound. It does not mean you have to force things up but it does mean you push the ball up each and every time. It will help keep teams off the offensive boards and create “more” easy layup shots than we get now. Even when you bring it out, you are still looking of delayed cutters to force the pace and remain offensively aggressive. When Siena brings it out now, they are passing it around the perimeter and not even looking to score so you are giving the defense a 15-20 second break to catch their breath. Plain and simple. Need more shot attempts. As an example Niagara has taken 64 more shots than us to date and scores 73 a gm.

PS – If you gave Bispring 20 minutes a game and the offensive green light both inside and out, I am sure he could produce 10 pts a game and that 5th double figure scorer.